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*Emerging diseases and factory farming *
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*What makes food safe?*
Within the industrial food system, “safety” is all about managing the high
risks created by this model of food production. Food is produced on
monoculture fields or factory farms, with uniform breeds of plants and
animals that are highly vulnerable to pests and diseases. In this context,
diseases can grow or mutate into more lethal forms, and, in the case of
animals, transfer to humans and spread through corporate supply chains. To
deal with their vulnerabilities, crops are genetically modified or doused
with toxic pesticides, and animals are fed antibiotics and drugs, creating
more health dangers. Then much of the food gets highly processed and sold
through supermarkets, causing harms like diabetes and cancer.
More and more regulations and standards are imposed by governments and
corporations to deal with these risks. But they typically only curtail the
most serious excesses, without threatening corporate profits, and are alien
to food systems based on traditional animal husbandry, markets and
agroecology, where risks are low because of diversity, local knowledge,
trust and small scale circuits. Those regulations have become a tool to
expand corporate control and undermine the healthy food systems that
continue to feed the majority of the world's people and that are the only
real solution to the harms of the industrial food system.
*GRAIN*
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